SHOULD WOMEN BE SUPPLIED WITH LIQUOR AT RACES?

Northern Advocate, 10 December 1937, Page 8

SHOULD WOMEN BE SUPPLIED WITH LIQUOR AT RACES?

[Special. To “Northern Advocate ”] DUNEDIN. This Day. At a meeting of the executive of the Forbury Park Trotting Club, women’s privileges in the matter of refreshment at licensed booths at race meetings were discussed. Advice was received that the Dunedin Licensing Committee had taken steps to enforce the condition prohibiting the supply of liquor to women and their presence in licensed booths.

Mr B. S. Irwin, the chairman, said that the police had put in a report in which it was stated that adequate provision was already made for women without the addition of a fourth booth for their special use.

The chairman of the licensing committee had not been aware that women were supplied with liquor, and had been incensed at the police for winking -at it.

Mr D, C. Jolly: Does the licensing committee know that we are being made the laughing-stock of New Zealand? The enforcement of these conditions is creating an absurd position. A suggestion that a test case should be made was discounted on the grounds that only the licensee could take such action. The licensing committee is to be asked to receive a deputation from the club.